Hi Rick! I loved reading this post! I think this is a great way to build teamwork skills. I think that for this activity, you could try to ensure that all the group members start with equal knowledge of the presentation topic to ensure the division of work is equal. Personally, for my ILD group, I find myself sometimes struggling as I am very unfamiliar with our target audience and topic, yet some of my group members are very familiar with the audience and the topic. Thanks – Jenna 🙂
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My group’s Interactive Learning Design subject is art therapy, but I specifically focus on photography. I have chosen this video titled Emotions in Photography. This video would be an excellent introduction to our perceived third-grade audience, with a photographer showing and explaining the thought and care into how his photographs are emotionally received.
This video poses questions to the audience, and if the instructor were to pause the video, that would give the class some time to discuss or to write what they think the answer to these questions is.
After this video, the students could go with cameras around outside and take some pictures but think a bit more about the work that went into them and how they can show their emotions through photographs. A simple prompt a third-grade student could understand would be the simple question, ‘How do you feel today?’ This allows students to use the surrounding area to find ways to express how they currently feel, whether it’s a fresh blooming flower or a plastic bag in the wind.
This activity would have formative feedback as the students are taking their photographs. The teacher could try to guess how they feel based on what they seem to be taking pictures of. If the teacher is correct, the student knows they are on the right track, but if the teacher cannot guess, they could give some examples of how the photographer in the video conveyed emotion. Summative feedback for this activity could be a discussion or a reflection where the students recognize the elements of their photos and why they chose them to convey their emotions.
The video’s target audience is older people/ adults interested in photography, so it may include some language that third-grade students may not understand as they are still relatively young. The video is about 12 minutes long, I think the creator does an excellent job keeping the viewers engaged, but that may not be the case for third-grade students with shorter attention spans.